Five Reasons Why Pokémon Go Will Change Education, and One Reason Why It Won't

By John Warner. Five reasons why Pokémon Go is the future of education…
1. It’s popular.
2. It’s fun.
3. It’s on phones and kids like their phones, so education of the future will have to be on phones.
4. It utilizes augmented reality, which is better than reality because as Jane McGonigal tells us, “reality is broken,” so if we can fix reality be augmenting it, we should.
5. Disruptive technology is coming for education, and if previous disruptive technologies such as MOOCs, adaptive software, Instagram, Uber, Snapchat, Twitter, badges, Candy Crush, the Kardashians, microcredentials, Comet Hale-Bopp, and so on haven’t managed to disrupt education, then surely Pokémon Go will because something has to eventually.
…and one reason it won’t.
1. No one knows the future of education, and in fact, the future of education will never arrive because the future is always in the future, which means we should spend a lot more energy considering the present. Read more...